"To Show That You're Really Fair, Bend Over Backward Just A Bit More" r *rl, igttn tttl Pianist Talks on Seventy-First Year 7' 'r 'EDITED AND MANAGED BY STUDENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN Opinions Are Fres UNDER AUTHORITY OF BOARD IN CONTROL OF STUDENT PUBLICATIONS h will Pea STUDENT PUBLICATIONS BLDG.* ANN ARBOR, MICH. * Phone NO 2-3241 orials printed in The Michigan Daily express the individual opinions of staff writers or the editors. This must be noted in all reprints. DAY, NOVEMBER 2, 1960 NIGHT JDITOR: PHILIP SHERMAN Citizens Show Responsibility In InternationAl Sphere g t < sue, !*'" 1 s MM'"'._ Y t t .pr < r ;v worldComprehension (EDITOR'S NOTE: This is a transcript of an interview with Van Clibu.rn recorded Monday night). By FRED FLAXMAN FLAXMAN: First of all I would like to ask you something I've wanted to ask you for a long time and that is: Not so long ago, not so many years ago, you were a person who was known and loved by his family and friends and all of a sudden, literally, you're loved by the world-your music is appreciated all over and you've been well .received in several countries and everybody knows you. What does it feel like CLIBURN: Well, it's a very responsible feeling and yet it makes you realize the great power of music. FLAXMAN: Do you feel that it is a way of helping the world situation through things other than politics? CLIBURN: I certainly do. Of Course, I'm not the first one to hold this thought. If we go back to Greek civilization and read the writings REASING awareness and commitment on e part of some citizens-University stu- and faculty-to responsible action in the national sphere is reflected in the organi- i of a group on campus to investigate and aps serve in a United Nations Civil Service. tial impetus for an explosive local re- se was supplied in speeches on campus residential candidate Sen. John Kennedy Rep. Chester Bowles. In his talk, Kennedy I how many in the audience would be in- ted in serving in Africa-an essentially maningful question, except that it received usiastic response. wles was a little more specific, outlining, in for a United Nations Civil Service. If underdeveloped country in Africa, he ed, could ask the UN for-for instance-a red mathematics teachers who speak ch, the African country could pay the lard salary for mathematics instructors the UN could make up the difference, ng the job worth while economically. An- ng support indicates that perhaps inter- young people would be willing to aug- the technical, medical and educational trees of young countries even at a slight idual deficit. A PRESS release Oct. 5, Kennedy cited .. the possibility of utilizing the services -urrent Choie URING an election campaign, comment and criticism drawn from both con- us and unconscious impressions are rife. 'pecially interesting in view of the fact t one candidate compares and contrasts program with the New Deal is this un- entional movie preview, which appeared a local newspaper: COMING-SURPRISE CAMPOBELLO! -J.S. of the very best of our trained and qualified young people to give of from three to five years of their lives to the cause of world peace by forming themselves into a Youth Peace Corps, going to the places that really need them and doing the sort of jobs that need to be done. "Such an example of young Americans help- ing young nations to pioneer new fields of the world's underdeveloped frontiers would, in my opinion, be not only a great assistance to such nations . , but the greatest possible growing experience for the new generation of American leadership . . . Such service would be consid- ered service in the national interest. Might it not make the normal military obligation un- necessary?" ORGANIZATION seems to be the recognized need of the University group. To date, they have gathered some 500 signatures to petitions endorsing the concept of the UN Civil Service. They have sent letters to almost 200 other colleges, asking for expressions of support, establishing contact with others sim- ilarly committed and encouraging the organi-' zation of other groups. Tomorrow the International Center will sponsor a meeting for those interested in the proposition, at 4:15 p.m., Aud. A. Angell Hall. The students and faculty members conven- ing wish to emphasize that the concern with aid to underdeveloped nations through the sending of technicians, doctors, teachers, engineers, scientists and so on is neither a partisan concern nor missionary work. Owing to the molasses mechanics of federal administration of funds, the viability of the idea is under some question. But the sincerity, courage and commitment of citizens willing to explore and act in the area of international concern are to be highly commended-as they have been, as they will continue to be. --JEAN SPENCER Editorial Director FREEDOM OF THE PRESS; Student Papers In- Unique Position The Loud Stillness E PHRASE, "silent generation" isn't too ld as cliches go. We first heard it used four or five years ago and we can remem- is having had a great vogue about two s back when the Columbia Broadcasting eu attempted to probe the phenomena the phrase nominally describes, .to probe depth, in two half-hour television docu- ary programs. r is an apolitical generation, the an- cer told us, born into a world whose lems we had no part in making and lied that we shall presently be its in- ors. We are confused, he told us con- ngly, and unwilling to grapple with the ing issues of our times. Overwhelmed hat surrounds us, we withdraw into a shell revel in our dreams of achieving job ity, family happiness and residential com- And in this dream plan there is little ision made for what lies outside the in- ual shell. If the business of running rld must go on, he told us.we prefer to it to others-to any others. E PHRASE, as far as we can judge from ersonal experience, is used rather infre- ftly these days. We must, in fact, confess until our attention was drawn to the ion and flare-up that have lately charac- ed the relationship between Dr. Buell agher, President of the City College, New :, and the. editor of one of its six news- rs, Mr. Peter Steinberg (The SUN, Oct. we had hardly become aware of its quiet at. hat made us aware, paradoxically, was the and loud noise that was coming from York City. It was the sound of a young calling the president of his college a lerer and asking the general faculty of school to support him by condemning the dent's stand. "Silent generation?" we ght; "who's kidding who?" id with this thought pleasantly fading in mind, we let our imagination drift back "ornell, away from the masonry clutter ae city and up to our peaceful hilltop. We iur musings drift over the campus. It must been late afternoon because the paths Editorial Staff THOMAS HAYDEN, Editor# NAN MARKEL JEAN SPENCER City Editor Editorial Director T ONER .... ....Personnel Director MAS WITECKI .... .......Sports Editor NETH McELDOWNEY ..* Associate City Editor HLEEN MOORE .... Associate Editorial Director OLD APPLEBAUM ,.,.., Associate sports Editor AEL UILLM AN ........ Associate 8Sorts Editor were rather uncluttered and the buildings seemed quiet and all was serene; and in the midst of all this happy peace, our stomach gave a slight twitch and we recognized some- thing that had been staring us in the face for a long time. Cornell was too damned peaceful, too damned quiet. There was just a little too much con- tentment with the world here to make life seem real. And our thought back to City College. THE SPIRIT that has made itself evident in the conflict between Dr. Gallagher and Mr. Steinberg simply does not seem to exist here at Cornell. The inquisitive drive that leads this City College editor to deal with leftist ideas, to deal with the unpopular and the "dangerous," and that has brought him into conflict with a liberal and distinguished edu- cator simply does not make itself felt here. A politician comes to campus to campaign for another politician with whose views a good number of the audience disagree. Some hecklers make their presence known as hecklers are wont to do in the healthiest of democracies. For their pains, they are labelled "boors." Their crimes? They became excited over something that will affect their lives for year to come And it simply isn't tweedy to get excited, to become involved. A basic change is contemplated in the cur- riculum of the Arts School. Discussion, there- fore, promptly shifts from the substance of the courses to be given to the manner in which grades will be assigned, The greatest interest naturally accrues to symptoms, not causes. A performance by a popular singing group in Syracuse outdraws the average campus lecture. The attitude of the average student here at Cornell, if we generalize, (and we realize the dangers inherent in generalization) can be made to fit the mold that the announcer of that television program we mentioned earlier cast for us. A GREAT MANY of us have come here with a vapid approach to the educational exper- ience. We come, we tell ourselves, to sit at the feet of the masters who, during our four year stay will initiate us into the learned mysteries; and at the end of that time we will leave this community armed with certifi- cates of education, commonly called B.A. And such as this approach is, we take care to intersperse it with cocktails. (Please note: I am not against cocktails) When we compare this to the attitude that Mr. Steinberg has shown and that we can confirm exists among ma'ny students at the City College, when we compare it to the attitude that added so notably to Harvard's fame during the thirties and that most surely is to be found today among students in schools across the nation-an attitude of almost em- (EDITOR'S NOTE: This the sec- ond of three articles on freedom of the student press.) By JUDITH OPPENHEIM Daily Staff Writer THE FACT THAT a student newspaper enjoys several pri- vileges at metropolitan daily does not renders it especially vulner- able to attack from student and administrative governing bodies. In "What Do We Mean by Free- dom of the Press?" Chicago Maroon editor Neal Johnson says: ... the school paper has some peculiar advantages. It has a ready made audience with no real fear of competition. Just about everybody reads the campus paper. It has an in- tellectual audience . . . It has some truly remarkable re- sources. It has at tradition of intellectual curiosity and in- quisitiveness. In addition a college newspaper is generally free of financial worries. Appropriations may come from a specif Ic fund or be de- JDAILY OFFICIAL BULLETIN The Daily Official Bulletin is an official publication of The Univer- sity of Michigan for which The Michigan Daily assumes no editorial responsibility. Notices should be sent in TYPEWRITTEN form to Room 3519 Administration Building, before 2 p.m. two days preceding publication. WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 2 General Notices Regents' Meeting: Fri., Nov. 18. Corn- nunieations for consideration at this meeting must be in the President's hands not later than November 8. International student and Family Ex- change: Open Wednesday, 7:30-9 p.m. and Thursday, 9:30-11 a.m. Every week at the Madelon Pound House, 1024 Hill St., basement. Coats and sweaters for men and wom- en. Infants equipment and clothing. These are available for all Foreign Students and familes needing the above items, Seniors: College of L.S.& A., and Schools of Business Amrinistratin, Education, Music, and Publicealth: Tentative lists of seniors for February grandation have been posted on the bulletin board in the first floor lobby, Admin. Bldg. Any changes therefrom should be requested of the Recorder at Office of Registration and Records, window number A, 1513 Admin. Bldg. Applications for Fellowships and Schol- arships in the Graduate Schol for 1960- 62 are now available. Applications for renewal should also be filed atthis time. Competition closes February 1 1961. Applications and information may be obtained in the Graduate School Offices, Rackham Building. Only stu- dents who intend to enroll in the Horace H., Rakham School of Graduate Sudies for 1961-62 may apply. Woodrow Wilson Fellowship Nominees sre invited to a coffee hour, Wed., Nov. 2, at 41:15 in the West Conference Room, Rackharn Building. Campusrepresent- tires and members of the Regional Se- lectiori Committee will speak briefly, and answer questions concerning the criteria for selection, the nature and purpose of the interviews, the choice of schools, and the kind of information and credentials submitted by each can- didate which will most clearly Idi- cate to the Foundationhis or her qualifications for a fellowship, ducted from student fees. Thus, although most papers take ad- vertising, they need not make advertiser opinion a criterion for editorial policy. * * * THESE ADVANTAGES are in- variably taken into account when- ever school authorities seek jus- tification for censoring a student publication. The advantages the paper enjoys, they argue, create a unique responsibilitiy to be ac- curate, objective and unbiased. Although these standards are certainly not objectionable applied to news coverage, editors protest loudly when they are asked to be objective and unbiased on the editorial page. Since an editorial by definition expresses the opinion of the writer it must necessarily be subjective, the degree of subjectivity depend- ing upon the nature of the topic. The campus newspaper usually does not feel compelled to take pro-con stands unless members of its staff can conscientiously take opposing sides. WHEN STUDENTS at Berkeley protested the execution of Caryl Chessman. for example, they ex- pressed strong moral convictions, Since no one on the staff felt Inclined to write an editorial in favor of the execution, it would have been almost impossible to compel someone to take such a stand against his convictions, As long as editorials are signed by the individual staff writers, or approved by the entire editorial board, the staffs feel they have assumed sufficient responsibility for their opinions. Contrary views may then be expressed in letters to the editor. * * ~* THIS ATTITUDE gives rise to charges that the staffs have "in- bred philosophies" and stifle dis- senting opinion. Such accusations were levelled at the senior editorial board of the Daily Califorian, the student newspaper of the University of California at Berkeley, two weeks ago by the Executive Committee of the Associated Students of the University of California. The committee objected to Daily Cal support of Michael Tigar, a candidate for representative-a t- large in the student government. They protested that since all students support the newspaper financially, the editors are un- justified in throwing the weight of their influence to one particu- lar candidate. * * * THE COMMITTEE resorted to' an article in its bylaws giving it "final authority with respect to the supervision and direction of its (the Daily Cal's) affairs, policies, and conduct." An amendment to the bylaws was moved stating that positions on the senior staff would hence- forth be open to application from any undergraduate. The Daily Cal editor objected that the amend- ment was "completely unaccept- able to the staff and principles of journalism because it destroys the principle of editorial positions based on journalistic competence and previous Daily Cal exper- body, it is not free-no matter how much independence its con- stitution guarantees-to say what it wants to about that organiza- tion, If the Executive Committee's argument-that it is not fair for a monopolistic mass medium to take sides in campus politics-is sound, a University professor feels it is equally true that the paper, in suppressing 'Its opinion, would be shirking the responsibility of the "fourth estate" to criticize the government, t . IN SOME OTHER instances where the administration or stu- dent government is displeased with the stand taken by a college newspaper, no one waits for the students to resign. Officials take the matter into their own hands and dismiss the offending parties. At Roosevelt University in Chi- cago last year, the Dean of Stu- dents removed from office the editor of the school newspaper, The Torch, and appointed a trans- fer student with no previous news- paper to her post. The ousting of the editor was os- tensibly due to poor grades, but many students and one college trustee believed it was the result of a stand she had taken against a project supported by the univer- sity president. IN OTHER CASES, the current controversy over the Observation Post at City College of New York, administrators have resorted to personal attacks on the beliefs of the editors. In an eighteen page statement entitled "On Freedom, Power, and Responsibility" CCNY president Buell G. Gallagher accused the editors of the Observation Post of being "Marxist oriented." He cites as proof their enthusiastic support of the communist-sponsored Vien' na Youth Festival and their con- tention that life at CCNY is an example of class struggle. GALLAGHER MAINTAINS he is objecting not to the belief in communist ideology held by these students, but to their advocacy of it in a mass medium which he claims they "captured." By "cap- tured," Gallagher means taking over an organization by having enough people present at meetings to outvote the weaker and apa- thetic opposition. Supporters of the editors say that if "Marxist" students repre- sent a majority group on campus, the are obviously justified in ex- pressing their views. If they do not represent a majority, the fact that the true majority permitted a minority to take over in the fashion it did merely indicates that the majority is not particu- larly concerned with having its views expressed. Left Divides THE EXTREMELY left-wing Japanese student association Zengakuren, which was the driv- ing force behind most of the violent demonstrations and bloody of Aristotle when he was writing about catharsis, he felt that music with its waves and sopnd vibra- tions was sufficient - even in illness - and this new process that they have developed in hos- pitals of musical therapy is cer- tainly evidence of this fact, When you think .of the thera- putic value of music, it has no bounds, it has no lulls other than within its complex structure. It has no prejudices. It is a univer- sal language, true, but it goes even deeper than that. It goes and penetrates the psyche of man. And music, with its great beauty and power is-properly channeled a key to the superconscious and brings in a theme of the eternal which all of us need. Humanity today is the very same humanity. That is one of the never changing things in life. Outside of the cliches of death and taxes, we know that humanity will always be the same, with al- ways the same wants, the same desires, the same sorrows and pleasures, unhappinesses as' well as happinesses. Young people are children to be brought up with the feeling that all of life is going to be rosy because all of life is not going to be rosy. Life, the older you get, is filled with more responsibilities and many times more hardships and heartaches which you have to overcome. To g into life with anything more than the basic, real, realistic structure that It is - no life is glamourous, every life Is cold, hard realism and it is only within the realm of the realistic, wherein you know how life is, that you seek this satisfaction held in music whether you are an artist or whether you are a musician. We need both. The music of the ages, and the kind of music that will remain after all of us are dead is the kind of music, and the kind of art, to which we must look to bring in the supernatural. FLAXMAN: Do you feel that man being unchanging, that the emotions of man being unchang- ing, is a reason for music lasting? CLIBURN: You see, one of the great hazards today In modern- day civlization with its very won- derful methods of transportation, it makes life to be so very quick and people are kept on a fast schedule, certainly not like it used to be. And to be conversational, which is an art that is slowly expiring. This is one of the rea- sons why young people today have brought in this idea - we call it popular music, as a matter of expediency. We're very Reader's Digest conscious - it's a wonder- ful magazine, don't get me wrong -- we want something that is really light, something that we really don't have to spend much consentration listening to. That's why the serious arts are the things that are so important. FLAXMAN: Well, do you feel that American composers are re- flecting this pace, this different pace, this emotional constitution, of our American life? CLIBURN: Why yes I do. I played the opus 26, the Sontata by Samuel Barber on my pro- gram tonight. I think he is a very wonderful American com- poser. I think his music expresses our modern way of life. NO1RTHWESTERN-: AdIotmen.# (EDITOR'S NOTE: This letter ap- peared Oct. 2 In the Daily North- western.) To the Editor: r EEND of, the, election cam- paign is less than one m nth away. The Socialist Labor party, a minority political party which was organized in 1876 and has participated in all presidential elections since 1892, has been denied the use of the public- owned airways for its presiden- tial and vice-presidential candi- dates due to the amendment of Sec. 315 of the Federal Commun- ' ications act. By denying time to our can- didates, and other recognized po- litical parties, we m.ay question. whether or not this is -only a beginning. As has been said,."we would do well to remember that suppression once sanctioned has epidemic qualities, and that all of us are minorities in one frame- work or another!" * ** THE SOCIALIST Labor party has opposed the amending of Sec. 315 on constitutional grounds, charging it would further curtail the freedom of speech guaranteed by the First amendment, suppress- ing completely the voices of all minority party candidates for President and Vice-President over the air waves. The main arguments, of those who advocated the suspension of equal opportunities Is that it would permit the broadcasters to give the major party candidates free time for debate and extended debate which, they claim,. would' result in a better informed and enlightened electorate. The argu- ment is fallacious; there can be no debate between men who re- present and uphold the same so-. cial philosophy in every essential respect. TRYING TO compare this great bore to the Lincoln-Douglas d- bate is ridiculous, Lincoln and Douglas debated an issue that was fundamental-chattle slavery-a outmoded social institution that was a bottleneck to progress. Now if the SLP's candidate for pre- sident, Eric Hass, had, debated either Mr. Nixon or Mr. Kennedy, that would have been a great de- bate! It would have focused public attention on the great issue of our ageocialism or ;capitalism. Such a debate would have ex- posed the reality of mass poverty and insecurity, as well as the capitalist cause of persistent poverty at :a time when the ma-+ terial conditions exist to eliminate poverty altogether, 'and have brought into the spotlight where the mass of Americans could ex- amine it, a program for 'recon- structing our social institutionsin accord with our technological and econoIical development. .-Louis Fisher Illinois State Secretary Socialist Labor Party TO THE EDITOR: Help forUN Service? To the Editor: rVy THOSE interested in pro- moting the flow of skills and people around the world: recall that the coming spring topic of the campus Challenge group is Underdeveloped Nations., Shouldn't it be possible that out of -dozens of lectures and seminars over four months time might come a plan, or plans, for action? These could be printed and widely dis- tributed., * * * THE AIM OF SUCH a plan would be, to show in detail how universities, governments, and other institutions can forward the desires of tfained people to put their talents at the service of human welfare, be it anywhere in comment intelligently, fairly, and perceptively. The overall result should convey an impression-an evaluation- of the overall pro- gram or work under review. One must judge the effect desired-in view of the artist and audience-- and then compare the effect achieved. Details, but significant details, should be noted. Now, to comment on the Daily review of the Monday Van Cli, burn. At best it was cool; at worst it was critical. .The central idear seems to be that the program was overly romantic. One must as- sume then, since Chopin didn't write before 1800, that an all- Chopin program would be overly romantic-or an all-Liszt, or an all-Brahms. Enough said.